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Farmer Family History | Find Genealogy Records & Family Crest

Farmer Genealogy & History

Farmer is an English surname that, oddly enough, has absolutely nothing to do with actually working the land. Those who got the name of farmer were the ones holding the leases to the fields and got the money from the peasants doing the work. The surname Farmer is observed in many documents in the early to mid-thirteenth century, but it wasn't until Richard Fermor in Devon 1293 that it was hereditary, so that is where Farmer family history begins. Farmer genealogy includes many famous people, such as science fiction author Phillip Jos� Farmer, civil rights leader James Farmer, Jr., and inventor Moses Farmer.